From: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 10:10:43 +0100
> This is a continuation of Gerard Garcia's work on the vsockmon packet capture > interface for AF_VSOCK. Packet capture is an essential feature for network > communication. Gerard began addressing this feature gap in his Google Summer > of Code 2016 project. I have cleaned up, rebased, and retested the v2 series > he posted previously. > > The design follows the nlmon packet capture interface closely. This is > because > vsock has the same problem as netlink: there is no netdev on which packets can > be captured. The nlmon driver is a synthetic netdev purely for the purpose of > enabling packet capture. We follow the same approach here with vsockmon. > > See include/uapi/linux/vsockmon.h in this series for details on the packet > layout. Series applied, thanks.
